Word: edens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London, before the House of Commons, Anthony Eden bluntly advised the Soviet Union to "remove suspicion" by letting Iranian troops pass...
Though it had all been blueprinted in general, Tory backbenchers squirmed, looked to the front benches for a word of protest, a challenge to debate. Winston Churchill's chair was vacant. So was Anthony Eden's. Oliver Lyttelton had to respond. He did, weakly, with a parliamentary point that was out of order. Laborites laughed and catcalled...
...Weakening." Ernie Bevin had sat up all night pondering his speech. He had seized a moment when serious troubles plagued Britain's foreign spheres. Smartly and swiftly he had picked up a cue dropped by his predecessor, Anthony Eden, in the House of Commons debate the day before. Eden had said that atomic weapons and "every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty." Eden's counsel: "Abate our present ideas of sovereignty [and] take the sting out of nationalism." His conclusion: the veto power of the Big Five of the United Nations Organization...
...week's show at the Adelphi sold better than the last time the London Philharmonic played there. To the first session Gross invited a handful of notables to come and hear for themselves. Sir Adrian Boult, Pianist Myra Hess and Composer Benjamin Britten sent regrets, but Mrs. Anthony Eden came, and wrote a fan letter. Tenor Richard Tauber stuck it out for two hours, then said politely: "This is ... a complete change from the music to which I am accustomed...
...announcement from Iraq fitted anthropological theory. The search for the cultural Eden, where the transition to agriculture actually took place, has long since narrowed down to the highland south of the Caucasus Mountains. On its fringes are ruins of settled villages already old when Egypt and Chaldea were peopled by preagricultural savages. But these villages are too highly developed to have been the first farming settlements. Somewhere nearby, anthropologists have believed, lies the place where man first planted-and waited a season to gather the ripened grain...